Mark Schulz
In my day job, I’m a DevOps engineer in a central team that provides Jenkins and other DevOps tooling.
Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful plugins from the Jenkins ecosystem. For June 2026, we’re featuring the Build Discarder Plugin. Do you maintain a Jenkins server with thousands of active users? And even more builds? Spring cleaning? Or you just want to keep things neat and tidy? A global configuration for your build items...
In this post, we share our experience upgrading Jenkins from Java 17 to Java 21 and the impact this had on memory usage. After the move, we observed a reduction in out-of-the-field memory consumption from a monthly mean of 33–34 GB down to 28 GB. This improvement helped us reduce operational pressure and improve overall efficiency in our Jenkins environment. Why we upgraded...
